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Guy’s and St Thomas’ Home Mechanical Ventilation UK Meeting
July 7, 2023
Programme overview
The HMV UK Meeting provides a multi-disciplinary network for established clinicians and healthcare professionals that are either caring for patients dependent on home mechanical ventilation, or that have an interest in continual care using highly advanced specialist technologies.
This meeting offers an invaluable opportunity to learn more about the latest advances in the management of children and adults with chronic respiratory failure. The HMV UK Meeting is also renowned for providing respiratory professionals and experts from around the country with the opportunity to network and knowledge share.
Topics for 2023 include:
- A year in review
- Keynote lecture: High Flow therapy in the home: Hype or hope
- Dental care for patients on LTTV
- Tracheostomy challenges in patients on LTTV: in-patient, out-patient or home changes
- LTTV care in the community: thriving not surviving with LTTV
- Sustainability of HMV
- Out-patient initiation of HMV: Evidence catching up with practice
- New developments in HMV High flow therapy – upcoming research
- Funding HMV: from PBR to block and back again
- Cost of living crisis: How to support patients
Who should attend
This one day meeting is ideal for those working with patients with chronic respiratory failure. This includes, but is not limited to, consultants in respiratory and critical care, rehabilitation medicine, sleep medicine and neurology, specialist registrars, therapists and clinical nurse specialists.
Format
The meeting brings experts from around the UK to present lectures, clinical trial updates, case studies, and interactive Q&A sessions. HMV UK has been designed to provide many opportunities for open discussions between healthcare professionals.
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